How NOT to move a group of methods to a new package in 5 minutes or less.

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Jul 11 08:02:50 UTC 2006


Peace Jerome wrote:
> How not to move a group of methods to a new package in
> 5 minutes or less.

Heh. Good point. This one was a bit of a communication problem. I didn't 
know that these changes had been made in 3.9a (I only just noticed that 
there are other changes to ToolBuilder in 3.9a which never made it back 
to the main repository either) but in order to provide "clean" packages 
I had to get rid of these methods right away. I guess the only real 
problem here is order of integration: The bug report(s) should have been 
dealt with before integrating the latest package version.

As an interim measure, you can simply install the change set from 
Mantis. For a long term solution help reminding people about the issue 
so it gets fixed before 3.9 is finalized.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> 
> 1) Andreas notices some mispackaged messages/methods
> in the Form class
> e.g. Form>>scaledIntoFormOfSize:
> 2) He removes them from the package.
> 3) He repackages them into new Morphic extention
> catagories.
> 4) He gives notice that he is doing this. 
> 4a) and places the moved methods on mantis as a
> changeset.
> 6) Stef harvests the new graphics package into Sq7039 
> 6a) But not the moved methods.
> 7) Stef publishes 7039 to the ftp site.
> 8) It is down loaded by hopeful users.
> 9) And yellowclicking will not bring up menus because
> the methods are missing.
> 
> 10)... a suivre (to be continued).
> 
> 
> I am sorry. This is not meant a criticism of the
> people involved. Andreas is being rigorous and Stef is
> trying to do a two man job all by himself. This was
> just too good a illustration of my challenge question.
> 
> see
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-July/105890.html
> 
> 
> 
> to pass up relating.
> 
> How long will it take to move this group of methods?
> How can it be done in 5 minutes or less?
> 
> Yours in curiosity, -- Jerome Peace
> 
> 
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